State v. Haygood

The Supreme Court affirmed Defendant’s convictions for premeditated first-degree murder and criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, holding that there was no reversible error in the proceedings below.Specifically, the Supreme Court held (1) the trial court did not commit reversible error by admitting evidence of Defendant’s prior domestic violence to show motive; (2) the trial court did not commit reversible error by denying Defendant’s request for jury instruction on the affirmative defense of self-defense and on the lesser-included offense of involuntary manslaughter; and (3) there was no prosecutorial error that required a harmlessness analysis. View "State v. Haygood" on Justia Law